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You can find my articles in English (and 8 other languages ;-)) in the Press Section.

Here is my Bio/Résumé in English. Many thanks to Elaine from Québec for the help!

Mini Bio: Co-author of « Untouchables? People, Justice & Impunity »(BallandPublishing), Lise Bouvet graduated in Political Science (IEP Paris), Arabic Literature (INALCO) and Philosophy, in Aesthetics (Art Theory) (Paris X/IV, La Sorbonne). She has been working about violence against women since 1997, including sexual harassment, domestic violence, and the sex industry. She co-directed the campaign against rape « No Justice No Peace » after the first DSK trials in 2011-2012. She is the past coordinator of Ressources Prostitution, an international abolitionist network, and one of its current translator of anglophone feminist articles, as well as curator of the website’s digital archives. She is also a photographer, a jazz fan, and a tea addict.

1996/97: 1st year inPolitical Sciences (Sciences Po Paris). Obtained Certificate of AP History (dissertation on Italian Fascism about the untranslated work of Renzo de Felice). Co-org of the Amnesty International section of IEP Paris and the feminist association « Les sciences potiches se rebellent ».

1997/98: Pausedstudies to work as an executive employee in a feminist NGO supporting women victims of violence (producing internal statistics based on case files and institutional communications). Dissertationon domestic violence in France under the supervision of sociologist researcher Marie-Victoire Louis, CNRS.

1998/99: 2nd year inPolitical Sciences (Sciences Po Paris), Public Service section. Simultaneously: 2nd year of Law in Paris II. Co-founder of an international abolitionist NGO : translation (English-French) + preparatory research assistant for interventions at the ILO on the genesis of the Dutch regulation lobbyists. Interpretation (conferences and abolitionist meetings).

1999/2000: Year abroad: Second year of Literary Arabic in Tunis (Tunisia).

2002/2005: Master degree (with honors) of Aesthetics and Political Philosophy. Work on a medieval Arabic manuscript. Publications in Studia Islamica & Autrement journal. French translation of The Poetics of Averroes (Ibn Rushd). Preparatory classes for Agrégation/CAPES in Philosophy (Paris I) and Arabic (Paris IV). Preparation tutor for the Bachelor of Philosophy and the General Culture exams of the IEP Paris and Province competitions.

2005/2006: Mission for the NGO Restaurateurs Sans Frontières (restoration without borders): Museology study to help establish a museum of natural history in Central Asia based on a critical analysis of the scenography of the Paris National Museum of Natural History (co-creation with an art historian from the École du Louvre). Production assistant (PA) for television documentaries. Professional training in digital photography.

2006/2007: Assistant director of documentary films. Professional training in black and white film photography.

2007/2008: Maternity leave. Assistant writer for documentaries and short films.

2011/2014: Graphic design and co-production of the campaign against rape « No Justice No Peace » (Pas de Justice Pas De Paix). Participation in the « Abolition 2012 » campaign, creation of archives and digital press kits (dossiers de presse numériques) on prostitution, animation of a photographic workshop about incest (private fund for a survivors’ NGO), creation of a Tumblr about Johns (Paroles de Clients) and a feminist collective writing blog (écriture collective féministe). Sick leave. Resuming of a PHD on C. Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Political Philosophy).

2014/2016: Co-founding of Ressources Prostitution (Collectif Ressources Prostitution), an international abolitionist network for the translation of Anglophone feminist resources into French: co-production of a WordPress and related digital tools, setting up of social networks, translations, creation of an online documentary fund, curation of web archives, scientific watch and coordination of an international working group. Participation in the C-36 campaign in Canada. For the Ressources Prostitution collective, from 2014 to 2017: revision and proofreading of more than 250 translations, translation (English/French), curation of more than 5,800 links classified in 56 tables, assistance in writing public information articles, media and scientific monitoring(more than 160 studies and reports listed) and community management. Publications in national and international Press (articles published and translated into 8 languages. Drafting of a proposal to UN WOMEN (ONU FEMMES)for NGO Femmes&Libres.

2016/2017: Publication of a Tumblr on female and feminist contemporary art. Creation of a feminist iconographic library (« iconothèque ») with more than 1000 references. Preliminary research and writing with Yael Mellulfor a book on violence against women, notably about the Polanski, Cantat, DSK and Tron cases: « Untouchables? People, Justice & Impunity« , published by Editions Balland. Shooting of promotional photos.

My motto:“Stay afraid but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” Carrie Fisher.

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Photo n°1: 1998, already a translator of prostitution survivors! At an abolitionist conference: I, the researcher Richard Poulin, the great Norma Hotalingfounder of SAGEand of whom I was the interpreter (may she Rest in Power…), Marie-Victoire Louis. Photo by Claudine Legardinier.